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Commissioner-General De Mist and Governor J. W. Janssens, (continued).
Efforts to produce sheep's wool in the colony.—Tour of a committee of the members of the commission to carry out improvements in agriculture and stock-breeding and particularly for the conversion of Cape sheep into merinos.—Description of the northern districts and of their inhabitants.—Efforts to improve the quality of Cape wine and to grow olives.—Failure of an attempt to establish schools not connected with the church.—Issue of a marriage ordinance by Mr. De Mist.—Adoption of a coat of arms by the city of Capetown.—Dedication of the masonic lodge De Goede Hoop.—Increase of the paper currency.—Destruction by fire of a great part of the village of Stellenbosch.—Jealousy of French influence.—Resignation of Mr. De Mist.—Military condition of the colony.—Return of Mr. De Mist to Holland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Lieutenant-General Jan Willem Janssens, Governor, (continued).
Establishment of posts between Capetown and the various drostdies.—Resolution regarding a new northern boundary of the colony.—Duties and powers of district officers.—Expedition to the Batlapin country.—Report upon the London missionary society's stations at the Zak river and north of the Orange.—Shipwrecks in Table Bay.—Census returns.—Condition of the colony at the close of 1805.—Expedition sent from England against the Cape Colony.—Landing of the English army under Major-General Baird on the Blueberg beach.—Composition of the army under General Janssens.—Battle of Blueberg.—Defeat of the Batavian forces.—Retirement of General Janssens with the remnant of his army to the mountains of Hottentots-Holland.—Capitulation of Capetown.—Scarcity of flour and wheat.—Measures adopted by General Baird.—Negotiations with General Janssens.—Capitulation of the Dutch army.—Departure of General Janssens for Holland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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